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Applied Probability

Blackwell Prize

Winners:  Peter W. Glynn, J. Michael Harrison, and Frank P. Kelly

Best publication Award

Winner:  Remco van der Hofstad
       

Best Student Paper Award

Winner:  Shengbo Wang

 

Artificial Intelligence (Data Science Workshop) 

Best Paper Award

Winners:  Michael Yang, Ruijiang Gao, and Eric Zheng

Student Paper Award

Winners:  Yizhi Liu, Balaji Padmanabhan, and Siva Viswanathan

Auctions and Market Design

Market Design Impact Award

Winners: Avinatan Hassidim, Assaf Romm, and Ran I Shorrer

Air Tranportation

Best Dissertation Award

Winner:  Shulu Chen

Best Paper Award

Winners: Wayne Ng, Nuno Ribeiro, and Diana Jorge

Best Student Presentation Award

Winner: Marcus Koh

Behavioral Operations Management

Best Working Paper Award


Winners:  Blair Flicker and Charlie Hannigan

Computing Society

INFORMS Computing Society Prize 

Winners: Alper Atamtürk, Andrés Gómez, Shaoning Han, Jason Altschuler, and Pablo Parrilo

Student Paper Award

Winner: Hao Hao

Harvey J. Greenberg Service Award

Winners: Braden L. Crimmins, J. Alex Halderman, and Bradley Sturt

Data Mining

Best Applied Paper Competition

Winners:  Huifeng Su, Lesley Meng, and Edieal Pinker

Best Theoretical Paper Competition

Winners:  Omar Bennouna, Amine Bennouna, Saurabh Amin, and Asuman Ozdaglar


Best Paper General Paper

Winners:  Matt Baucum and Meysam Rabiee

Best Paper Student Paper

Winners:  Jiachun Li, David Simchi-Levi, and Yunxiao Zhao

Data Challenge

Winners:  Shourya Bose, Tomas Kaljevic, and Yu Zhang
 

Data Mining Society Teaching Award

Winner: Matthew A. Lanham

Data Mining Prize

Winner: Jing Li

Stakeholder Engagement Data Challenge Competition

Winners: Kabsoo Jang and Alec Fishbach

DMDA Workshop Undergraduate Research Poster Travel Award

Winners: Michelle Guo and Tongyu Wang

Decision Analysis Society

Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Winner: Robert Nau

Publication Award

Winners: Jens Witkowski, Rupert Freeman, Jennifer W. Vaughan, David M. Pennock, and Andreas Krause

Student Paper Award

Winner: Stefanos Poulidis

eBusiness Section

Best Paper Award

Winners:  Paramveer Dhillon, Yi Gao, Tian Lu, and Yingjie Zhang

Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section

Best Publication in Energy

Winners: Wei Qi, Yuli Zhang, and Ningwei Zhang

Best Publication in Environment & Sustainability

Winners: Ali Fattahi, Saeed Ghodsi, Sriram Dasu, and Reza Ahmadi

Best Publication in Natural Resources

Winners: Long He, Nan Ke, Ruijiu Mao, Wei Qi, and Hongcai Zhang

Best Student Paper

Winners: Shuyi Chen, Shixiang Zhu, and Ramteen Sioshansi

The Harold Hotelling Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment

Winner:  Yves Smeers

Early Career Best Paper Award

Winner: Vladimir Dvorkin
 

Section on Finance

Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in the Journal

Winners: Agostino Capponi and Marko Weber

Student Paper Competition in Finance

Winner: Yutian Zhou

Health Applications Society

Pierskalla Award

Winners: Matt Baucum, Matt Harris, Larry Kessler, and Guanyi Lu

Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award

Student Paper Competition

Winner: Sara Mohammadi

Information Systems Society

ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award

Winners: Xiaoning Wang, Lynn Wu, Lorin M. Hitt, Tian Lu, Yingjie Zhang, Beibei Li, Chunxiao Li, Hongchang Wang, Songtao Jiang, and Bin Gu

ISS Distinguished Fellow

Winners: Ahmed Abbasi, Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Han Zhang, Kai-Lung Hui, and M. S. Krishnan

The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award

Winners: Sofia Bapna, Yuheng Hu, Jing Peng, Jingchuan Pu, and Yingjie Zhang

Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award

Winner: Yu (Rain) Kan

ISS Management Science Best Paper Award

Winners: Gordon Burtch, Qinglai He, Yili Hong, and Dokyun Lee

Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award

Winners: Uttara Ananthakrishnan, Yash Babar, Yanzhen Chen, Dorothy Lianlian Jiang, Bowen Lou, Tian Lu, Raveesh K. Mayya, Siddhartha Sharma, and Yifan Yu

Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award

Winners: Alexander Tuzhilin and Gedas Adomavicius

ISS Cluster Best Paper Award

Winners: Xingchen Xu, Stephanie Lee, and Yong Tan

Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award

Winners:  Ramesh Venkataraman, Subodha Kumar, and Giri Kumar Tayi

ISS Practical Impacts Award

Winners: Anajana Susarla and Mohammad Rahman

Junior Faculty Interest Forum

JFIG Paper Competition

Winner: Shuze Chen and Tianyi Peng

Teaching Excellence Award

Winner: Albert S. Berahas

Military and Security Society

Koopman Prize

Winners: Virginie Lurkin and Loe Schlicher
 

J. Steinhardt Prize

Winner:  Susan M. Sanchez

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society

MSOM Journal Best Paper Award

Winners:  Xiaoyang Long and Javad Nasiry

MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition

Winners: Ying Rong, Zhenkang Peng, Chengzhang Li, Zichao Luo, Guangrui Ma, and Mingyong Zhao

MSOM Data Driven Challenge

Winners: Vivek Choudhary, Xiaodan Shao, and Jiatao Ding

MSOM Young Scholar Prize

Winners: Srikanth Jagabathula and Yashodhan Kanoria

Responsible Research in Operations Management

Winners: Theodore P. Papalexopoulos, James B. Alcorn, Dimitris Bertsimas, Rebecca Goff, Darren Stewart, and Nikolaos Trichakis

Best OM Paper in Management Science Award

Winners: Hessam Bavafa and Jónas Oddur Jónasson

Distinguished Service Award

Winner: Georgia Perakis

MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award

Winner: Izak Duenyas

Student Paper Competition

Winner:  Baizhi Song

MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award

Winners:  Nitin Bakshi, Jeunghyun Kim, and Raman Randhawa

MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award

Winners: Deepak Agrawal
and Nikolay Osadchiy

MSOM Operations Research Best OM Paper Award

Winners: Negin Golrezaei, Vahideh Manshadi, Jon Schneider, and Shreyas Sekar

Minority Issues Forum

Paper Competition

Winners: Abhishek Ray, Viplove Arora, Kayse L. Maass, and Mario Ventresca

Early Career Award

Winner: Juba Ziani

Summer Webinar Competition

Winner: Jiannan Xu

Student Poster Competition

Winner: Juan-Alberto Estrada-García

Multiple Criteria Decision Making Section

MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award

Winners: Lucas Borges Leal da Silva

Optimization Society

Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize

Winner: Marc Teboulle

Optimization Society Farkas Prize

Winner: Maryam Fazel

Optimization Society Student Paper Prize

Winner: Zikai Xiong

Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize

Winner: Benjamin Grimmer

Egon Balas Prize

Winner: Mingyi Hong

Organization Science Section

Dissertation Proposal Competition

Winner: Clem Aeppli

Public Sector OR Section

Best Paper Award

Winners: Douglas R. Bish, Ebru K. Bish, Merve Bodur, and Berk Gorgulu

PSOR Video Competition

Winner: Paula Penagos

Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section

Best Student Paper Award

Winners: Brian Liu and Rahul Mazumder

Best Refereed Paper

Winners: Jiachang Liu, Soroosh Shafiee, and Andrea Lodi

PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge

Winners: Catherine Wang, Ziying Ye, and Yue Jiang

Teaching Award

Winner: Chen Zhang and Jianguo Wu

Railway Applications Section

Student Paper Competition

Winners: Inneke Van Hoeck, Carl Henrik Häll, Anders Peterson, and Pieter Vansteenwegen

Revenue Management and Pricing Section

Section Prize

Winners: Maxime C. Cohen, Adam N. Elmachtoub and Xiao Lei

Jeff McGill Student Prize

Winner: Sourav Sahoo

Section on Location Analysis

Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Austin Saragih

Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award

Winner: Dr. Karmel S. Shehadeh

Service Science 

Best Cluster Paper Award

Winners: Zhiyu Zeng, Zhiqi Zhang, Tat Chan, Dennis Zhang, Wenchang Zhang, Kostas Bimpikis, and Yiangos Papanastasiou

Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung

Best Paper in Socially Responsible Research Award

Winners: Aydin Alptekinoglu and Gerdus Benade

Social Media Analytics

Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Huifeng Su 

Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES)

Best Paper Award

Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management 

Winner: Junghee Lee, Vish Krishnan and Hyoduk Shin

Best Working Paper Award

Sponsored by Mack Institute for Innovation Management 

Winner: Ping-Chieh Huang, Zhe Zhang, and Sanjiv Erat

Best Doctoral Dissertation Award

Sponsored by UCL School of Management

Winner: Ilan Morgenstern

Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section

Best Paper Award

Winners: Maral Shahmizad and Austin Buchanan

Transportation Science and Logistics Section

TSL Dissertation Prize

Winner: Fabian Akkerman

Transportation Science Emerging & Cross-functional Topics Paper of the Year

Winners: Niels Agatz, Remy Spliet, and Thomas R. Visser

Transportation Science Logistics & Routing Paper of the Year

Winners: Axel Parmentier, Kai Jungel, Léo Baty, Maximilian Schiffer, and Patrick S. Klein

Transportation Science Modes & Industries Paper of the Year

Winners: Marelot H. de Vos, Rolf N. van Lieshout, and Twan Dollevoet

Transportation Science Traffic, Demand & Network Analysis Paper of the Year

Winners: Xiaotong Sun and Zhengtian Xu

TSL Best Paper Award

Winners: Miguel A. Lejeune and Wenbo Ma

TSL Freight Transportation and Logistics SIG Best Paper

Winners: Jiaqi Wang, Weijun Xie, Ilya O. Ryzhov, Nikola Markovic, and Ge Ou

Stella Dafermos Achievement Award

Winner: Roberto Roberti
 

TSL Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Haoran Guo

Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner: Cynthia Barnhart

 

Women in OR/MS Forum (WORMS)

Doctoral Colloquium Student Sponsorship Award

Winner: Hasini Balasuriya

WORMS Family Award 2025 – Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Burcu B. Keskin

Winners: Ifeoluwa Solaru, Faustina Sarfo, and Reut Noham

Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS 

Winner: Wei Sun